The 2006 High School Regional Juried Art Exhibition

March 19 – April 15 2006

College Park Hall

Students from Albany, Schenectady and Rensselear Counties participated in the 7th Annual High School Regional Art Exhibit, sponsored by Union College.

The 2006 guest speaker and juror is Sheldon Hurst, Dean of Faculty at Adirondack Community College. Additional jurors are Tara Fraccalosi, Instructor of Fine Arts at Hudson Valley Community College and Renee Azenaro, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art at Sage College.

Jurors:

Lucy Bowditch is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the College of Saint Rose (Albany, NY). She has also taught at Pace University and the Parsons School of Design. She has curated exhibitions at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the National Arts Club, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her articles have been published in Afterimage, Artpress, MD Magazine, and Modern Photography. She is currently working on The Turning Point: Steiglitz and the National Arts Club, 1902, being considered by Viking Press.

Walter Hatke, May I. Baker Professor of Fine Arts at Union College (Schenectady, NY) is an established painter who has exhibited nationwide and is represented by Gerald Peters Gallery in New York and Santa Fe, and John Pence Gallery in San Francisco. His work is in collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art and many others. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and Ingram Merrill Foundation.

Stephen J. Tyson is a painter, a curator, and adjunct professor of art at Schenectady County Community College (Schenectady, NY). He is also on the faculty of the Art Department at SUNY Albany where he teaches African and African-American Art. He was the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to Namibia and Botswana in 1995, and one to Nigeria in 1998. He has illustrated a number of books including Just Visiting This Planet (Doubleday, 1998) and Merlin .s Tour of the Universe (Columbia University Press, 1989).